Daily Birthdays and Events in Sci-Fi, Comics and related areas

October 8, 2010

Alien, Wall-E, Avatar, The She-Creature, The Golem's Mighty Swing, Captain Video, Superman, Superboy, Demolition Man, Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

If you're a fan of the early actors that played Superman then this is your day.


Enjoy !!!



Birthdays

Sigourney Weaver 1949, actress, Ripley - Alien (1979), Ellen Ripley - Aliens (1986), Ellen Ripley - Alien 3 (1992), Ellen Ripley - Alien: Resurrection (1997), Gwen DeMarco - Galaxy Quest (1999), Frieda - Happily N'Ever After (2007) (voice), Ship's Computer - WALL·E (2008) (voice), Dr. Grace Augustine - Avatar (2009).
Ron Randell 1918, Police Lt. Ed James - The She-Creature (1956), Bill Dermott - Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (1 episode, "Contact", 1960), Henderson James - The Outer Limits (1 episode, "The Duplicate Man", 1964).
James Sturm 1965, cartoonist, co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. Sturm is also the founder of The National Association of Comics Art Educators (NACAE); an organization committed to helping facilitate the teaching of comics in higher education. Fantagraphics published his first comic book The Cereal Killings #1. In 1998, Drawn & Quarterly published the story Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight, the second in Sturm's trilogy of American historical fiction pieces. Two years later came the last installment of the trilogy, the best-selling and award-winning graphic novel The Golem's Mighty Swing. In 2004, Drawn & Quarterly collected Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight and The Revival as a deluxe comic book titled Above & Below. In October 2007, the trilogy was collected in a volume entitled James Sturm's America: God, Gold, and Golems. In 2003, James got the chance to write Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules, a four-issue series (later released as a trade paperback) featuring characters based on the Fantastic Four and published by Marvel Comics. Unstable Molecules went on to win an Eisner Award for “Best Limited Series.”
Bruce Edwards 1914, actor, Police Sergeant - Dick Tracy (1945), Agent 34 - Captain Video, Master of the Stratosphere (1951)[Ch. 4].
Kirk Alyn 1910, actor, Superman / Clark Kent - Superman (1948), Superman / Clark Kent - Atom Man vs. Superman (1950), Rioter Bringing Guns - When Worlds Collide (1951), Martin - Dennis the Menace (1 episode, "A Quiet Evening", 1962), Old Man - Battlestar Galactica (1 episode, "The War of the Gods: Part 1", 1979), Young Lois Lane's Father on Train - Superman (1978), Pa Cant - Superbman: The Other Movie (1981).


Events

1988, Superboy airs.
1990, Star Trek:TNG, "Brothers" airs.
1993, Demolition Man is released.
1994, The Secret World of Alex Mack Nickelodeon.
1997, Star Trek:Voyager, "The Raven" airs.
2003, Star Trek:Enterprise, "Impulse" airs.
2004, Star Trek:Enterprise, "Storm Front" airs.
2008, Animated TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars debuts in the USA.

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